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From the time we land in Morocco,

it's the top-of-the-line

villa, La Mamounia.

Three bedrooms, we had a private pool,

we had a 24-hour butler.

It was around $7,000 a night.

We went to all of the stores in the city and just kept shopping.

- Anna has this idea.

She wants to go to Morocco and shoot a documentary

about the creation

of the Anna Delvey Foundation.

NARRATOR: But what Anna didn't realize

was that her reign as a German heiress

was coming to an end.

HAWK: She really wanted somebody

to document her extravagant

lifestyle choice.

I agreed to follow her around with a camera

and document bits and pieces of her travels.

One of the strangest things about Anna

from the very beginning:

I just remember that she didn't have any money.

Anna would give her debit card

to someone and they would run it and say,

"Oh, it was declined," and she's like,

"My bank said it's a security issue

with Morocco. They can't just send the money immediately."

The day before we were checking out,

the concierge hadn't received any money.

- Surprise, surprise-- Anna's card didn't work

and was not able to pay for the hotel trip.

NARRATOR: Anna's friend Rachel

was pressured to foot the entire bill.

She figured Anna would pay her back later.

- I remember Rachel saying,

"I swiped my card for $62,000."

SHAMSIAN: She charged it

to her Vanity Fair card. It's a whole big mess.

Anna says, "Of course, you know, I'll pay you back."

PALMER: After this trip of fantasy

to Marrakesh, reality really hits.

Anna has no money,

and she's really kind of lost her best friend.

- Rachel had reached out to Anna

to pay her back. Anna did not pay her back.

NARRATOR: Anna's persona was unraveling,

and her lies were starting to catch up to her.

Rachel, now gone.

Anna was alone.

PALMER: She goes to the Parker Meridien

and she goes to a little restaurant there

and orders two salmon sandwiches

and four glasses of wine.

And it comes out to something under $200

and she doesn't have the money. They call the police.

SPODEK: Anna wound up handcuffed

and it snowballed from there.

NARRATOR: It was more than two sandwiches

that got Anna in trouble.

SPODEK: The Financial Frauds Bureau

at the DA's office is receiving complaints from people.

As they're investigating, they realize

it's really not, you know, petty crime that she's committing,

but really large-scale grand larceny from

various financial institutions.

REPORTER: She posed as a wealthy heiress

to defraud New York hotels,

banks and fashionable friends.

REPORTER 2: Authorities say she owes nearly $300,000.

NARRATOR: On December 18, 2018,

Anna goes to court.

The charges:

several counts of grand larceny,

attempted grand larceny,

and theft of services.

- Anna was offered a plea deal of three to nine years,

and she thought that that was too much time for

what she'd done.

SPODEK: I represented Anna

throughout her criminal case.

Anna said, "We're not taking the plea."

And ultimately,

we went to trial.

And the entire world is watching.

REPORTER: This is probably not

what Anna Sorokin imagined

doing things her way would get her.

She was so concerned about how she looked in court,

she actually hired a stylist.

PALMER: You have all the tabloids come in,

and then you have Anna, who's coming into court every day

in these designer clothes,

and not looking sorry at all.

- She had an epic meltdown one day,

when the outfit she was anticipating

didn't show up.

- Each day, the tabloids are coming in

and they are reporting on what she's wearing

or if she's had a meltdown.

SPODEK: As the case is progressing,

some of the stuff is very problematic.

They got into her phone and they got into her computer

and her e-mails and we were stuck.

There's just no way about it.

NARRATOR: Anna had left a paper trail,

and the game was over.

- So, on April 25, 2019, Anna's found guilty.

- The so-called "fake heiress of New York City"

is headed to prison.

REPORTER: She was sentenced Thursday to serve

between four and 12 years

on four counts of grand larceny

and four counts of theft of services.

- According to the jury, she successfully stole

around $270,000 from the banks.

REPORTER: In fact, it's one of the most severe sentences

that she could have gotten.

REPORTER 2: Judge Kiesel indicated that she wanted

to send a message.

The attempted larceny was around $22 million

that she tried to get from these financial institutions.

But they found her not guilty of scamming Rachel Williams.

NARRATOR: Because Rachel willingly chose

to cover the Morocco trip

on her credit card, the jury acquitted Anna

of defrauding her friend.

Anna Delvey was sentenced

to four to 12 years in prison.

She's currently an inmate

at Albion Correctional Facility.

- Seeing that lots of affluent white men

who were older were taking advantage of the system,

she took advantage of the system.

NARRATOR: In Anna's mind,

she was beating multimillion-dollar companies

at their own game.

She just happened to get caught.

- Lots of other venture capitalists

do this all the time.

That same skill set could create a Fortune 500 company

and employ hundreds of thousands of people.

If you talk to Anna, she absolutely had a plan

to create the Anna Delvey Foundation.

- She didn't have the ability to do it

in a legal and ethical way.

She did her way.

NARRATOR: In an interview from prison, Anna said,

"The thing is, I'm not sorry."